Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former CEO of Theranos, left court in San Jose, Calif., in 2019.
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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’s criminal trial is being delayed again after her lawyers and prosecutors revealed in a Friday court filing that she is pregnant and due to give birth in July.
Ms. Holmes had been slated to begin trial July 13, a date that is no longer feasible, lawyers said in the filing in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif. In light of her pregnancy, the two sides asked a federal judge on Friday to move the beginning of jury selection to Aug. 31.
Ms. Holmes is accused of defrauding investors and patients about Theranos’s technology, which purported to use just a few drops of blood from a finger prick to test for a variety of health conditions. Prosecutors brought charges against her and the company’s former chief operating officer, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, in June 2018. Ms. Holmes has been scheduled to go on trial first, with the date repeatedly being delayed because of the pandemic.
Both former executives have pleaded not guilty. Ms. Holmes has sparred with the government over what jurors can see at trial.
The now-defunct blood testing company came under public pressure in late 2015, after The Wall Street Journal revealed that the company ran few tests on its proprietary machines, which produced unreliable results, and instead performed most tests with commercial analyzers that it bought from other companies and sometimes altered.
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